And the lion shall lie down with the lame by Arthur Smith

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact. A speccy theologian once told me that there is only one known gag in the Bible and to get it you need to know Aramaic, because it is, of course, a pun. My friend Adam has also pointed me to a routine Jesus does in John I 45-51 that involves a fig tree and a naif called Nathaniel, but it struck me as pretty lame stuf…

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